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We are maintaining our test cases in testlink. For a given sprint we write functional test cases for features and regression suite update accordingly. Now we are in the process of starting automation. Our plan is to convert regression suite to automation. How to maintain the mapping between regression manual test cases and automation Test suite test cases. How to maintain this frequently

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I will suggest a possible path for some folks in this situation.
This may not work for all situations.

Plan for the future, don't just repeat the past

If you simply convert the manual cases to automated ones you will solve one problem but create others.
You will reduce the need for manual testing but you will:

  • Introduce the need for quality engineer to maintain the automation. Engineers are expensive.
  • Create flaky, brittle UI tests. UI tests fail intermittently in every place I've worked
  • Miss a perfect opportunity to start doing Agile Testing and dividing up tests into Unit, Integrated and UI
  • Miss the huge benefits that come from manual testing when humans spot things that are awry
  • Likely still want to do some manual testing in an exploratory charter approach

You may get push-back to this saying we'll do that in phase II
Phase II doesn't usually happen in my experience.

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I would delete the manual test case after it has been converted into an automated test. Automated tests should be run automated at least before deployment, preferably after each change.

Keeping the mapping feels as administration for the sake of administration. Therefor I would like to challenge you to think about if you really need it, probably you don't. Yagni!

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    Additionally, it's always good to remember that one cannot automate testing strictly (just the checking part). Depending on how these documents are written, I would say that instead of removing, one should edit them, based on risk analysis.
    – João Farias
    Commented Mar 6, 2019 at 9:05
  • @JoãoFarias A manual regression suite is also just checking, not?
    – Niels van Reijmersdal
    Commented Mar 6, 2019 at 9:36
  • I would call a folder with exploratory charters a "manual suite"; and it's definitely not only checking.
    – João Farias
    Commented Mar 6, 2019 at 9:39
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    @JoãoFarias Sounds like unrelated to this question. Not sure how you are going to convert exploratory charters to automated tests. Lets stay on topic.
    – Niels van Reijmersdal
    Commented Mar 6, 2019 at 9:52
  • In our suite , we still keep the manual test cases as a documentation of the automated cases so new members can have a quick look at the manual test cases before diving in the automation code.
    – Vishal Aggarwal
    Commented Mar 6, 2019 at 23:51
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Simply introduce an automated label - add it to a test case that is fully automated and does not need to be executed manually. Your manual regression set will get smaller each sprint as more automation will be in place.

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